Hearing that his parents were going to marry a daughter-in-law for him, Zhang Tiezhu's face immediately turned red, and he quickly shook his head and refused.

"Mom and Dad, this silver is for your usual use. If I really want to find a daughter-in-law in the future, I can earn enough more money......"

"Now the imperial court is attacking our Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, and wants to take back the fields, cattle and sheep that the marshal has just given us. Of course, we Wei Dashuai didn't do it, and Dashuai said that as long as the imperial court officials and soldiers dared to come to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, we would destroy them. ”

"When I was fighting with those wretches in the imperial court, my son and I could make a few feats casually. According to the rules of the Haw Par Army, as long as I have military merits, Wei Dashuai will reward me with silver, and will continue to promote me to an official. At that time, even if it is a few hundred taels of silver, it will be an easy thing for my son and me. ”

"Therefore, son, use all the money I have brought back."

Seeing the confident smile on the boss's face, Zhang Tiezhu's face also smiled like a flower. As if the person who was going to the battlefield was himself, he said with a proud face: "Okay, it is worthy of being my Zhang carpenter's son, and he has backbone......"

"I think back then, our family also suffered a lot of anger from the official army. Your grandfather was beaten to death by the officers and soldiers. ”

"In my opinion, there is not a single good thing in the officers and soldiers. Seeing that we are living a good life, they want to come and rob us, they are simply a bunch of bandits who are not as good as animals. When you arrive at the battlefield, you must cut off the heads of a few more officers and soldiers to avenge your dead grandfather. ”

Zhang Tiezhu nodded and replied: "Dad, don't worry, as long as the officials and soldiers dare to come, we will dare to kill them all." It's death. We can't go back to those hungry days. ”

After speaking. Zhang Tiezhu once again shifted his gaze to fifty taels of silver.

said to the second elder with a grateful face: "Parents." I'm in the Haw Par Army, and I can eat meat every day. I know that our family is not short of food, but it is still very difficult to eat a bite of meat. Look at the younger siblings, now is the time to grow your body. So, these silvers. Take it and buy more meat to eat......

"My son is a soldier in the Haw Par Army, and I can't honor you two elders in normal times, so I can only give you some more silver. Therefore take the money in any way. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Tiezhu shook his head again and replied, "No matter what, we won't use this silver." You know, you bought all this money with your life. Since you insist, I'll help you take it. Keep it for future marriages and houses. As for the home. Don't worry, after the autumn harvest, we won't be short of silver......"

"When the autumn grain is harvested, you and I promise that I will let my younger brothers and sisters eat a meal of meat every few days."

After finishing speaking, a heartfelt smile of relief appeared on Carpenter Zhang's face.

Hearing this, Zhang Tiezhu, who was a soldier, also showed an expression of interest on his face.

With a look full of anticipation, he asked, "Dad...... Mother... Tell me how much grain our family can harvest this year, and you will be so happy that you are about to lose your mouth. ”

Carpenter Zhang shook his head and replied, "I don't know how much." After all, this is the first time our family has grown wheat. However, I have already asked my neighbors, because the marshal has drilled us a deep well, and the governor's palace has made us use a lot of manure in the fields, and this year's yield is better than in previous years, and there is absolutely no problem in harvesting two loads of wheat per acre. ”

"However, we will only know how much we can harvest after the autumn harvest is over."

"It just so happens that Tiezhu has come back, and from tomorrow, our family will start cutting the wheat, and strive to harvest all the wheat into the granary in ten days."

The next day, the whole family of six came to their farmland and began to harvest wheat.

As the days passed, more and more wheat was harvested......

After a series of harvesting, threshing, drying... After the process, bags of wheat were successively collected into the granary by Carpenter Zhang.

When the last bag of grain was carried into the granary, the tension and worry on Carpenter Zhang's face immediately disappeared. At the same time, a smile of satisfaction from the heart. It also appeared on Carpenter Zhang's weather-beaten face.

Because, the total income of his own 40 acres of wheat field unexpectedly reached an astonishing 88 quintals. More than I expected, it was a full eight loads.

Faced with this result, not only Carpenter Zhang, but everyone in the family laughed......

The excited old father, in order to express the excitement in his heart, directly hugged the bed and slept in the granary full of grain for a night.

After the whole family has recovered from excitement and calmed down. Zhang Tiezhu, who had learned a lot of things in the Haw Par Army, immediately asked a question that he was most concerned about: "Dad, it is impossible to pile up all the more than 80 loads of grain in the granary...... I don't know what you're going to do with it? ”

Faced with this question, the excited carpenter Zhang immediately regained his composure and replied to the boss.

"According to the agreement when the field was divided, in the first three years of the field distribution, five buckets of grain were paid per mu of land."

"Two of the buckets of grain are grain taxes, and the remaining three buckets of grain will be returned to the governor's palace as the governor's palace to divide the fields and dig deep wells, and the price of almost a year's rations."

"Therefore, among these grains, twenty loads of grain belong to the governor's palace, and they cannot be moved in any way."

"The Governor's Mansion is so good to us, and now that we have a good harvest, we must not owe the Governor's Mansion grain tax."

After nodding to his father's answer, Zhang Tiezhu continued to ask: "After deducting the twenty quintals of grain tax, our family still has sixty-eight quintals of grain left...... I don't know what you're going to do with the rest of the food. ”

At this time, Carpenter Zhang responded to a sentence that he often heard, that is: 'There is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart'......

Faced with the question raised by the boss, Carpenter Zhang, who was smiling, answered unhurriedly......

"Our family brought you, there are seven people in total, so we have to leave thirty loads of ...... for rations."

"In order to deal with the possible disaster next year, I also plan to leave fifteen loads of grain in storage."

So sixty-eight loads of grain went to forty-five loads. As for the remaining twenty-three loads of grain, I decided to respond to the call of the Governor's Palace and sell all of them to the Governor's Palace. Pay back the sixty taels of silver that our family bought six sheep and owed to the governor's palace. ”

"As for the silver left over from the sale of grain, I will keep it for our family's expenses for a year."

"When the grain comes up next year, we will save money for your second brother, and strive to marry a wife for your second brother next year......

Facing the satisfied smile on his father's face. Zhang Tiezhu directly shook his head and denied: "Mom, parents, to tell you from the heart, I don't agree with you doing this......"

Carpenter Zhang was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought that the current boss was no longer the original boy who didn't know anything, but a low-level officer of the Haw Par Army. Whether it is seeing or understanding things, there is much more than myself.

In this case, the ideas and opinions of the boss in front of him may be better than their own.

Thinking of this, Carpenter Zhang asked directly without the slightest hesitation.

"Tiezhu, you have a lot of knowledge, what do you think? If you say it well, we will listen to your ......"

Zhang Tiezhu did not hesitate and directly said his thoughts......

"Sixty-eight loads of grain, except for thirty loads of rations, the remaining thirty-eight loads of grain were sold to the governor's palace. According to the current price of four taels of silver and one load of grain, 38 taels of grain can be sold for a total of more than 150 grains of silver. ”

"As for the silver, take one hundred taels of it to the governor's palace to buy a ploughing ox, and the remaining fifty taels will be used as our family's expenses throughout the year, so that the family's life will be better."

When it came to ploughing cattle, Carpenter Zhang felt a pain in his heart.

When I first distributed cattle and sheep, I thought the cattle were too expensive, so I didn't ask for them.

However, with the help of the oxen, the tunns who asked for the ploughing cattle cultivated all the fields distributed by the governor's palace in only half their own time. In this case, because the spring ploughing time has not yet ended, these tun people, each family, took advantage of this time to privately reclaim four or five acres of land.

Although these lands are subject to grain tax, after removing the grain tax, there are still some four or five acres of land that add up to seven or eight loads of grain.

According to this harvest, in two years at most, these people can get a ploughing ox for nothing without paying any other price.

And it was such a good thing that he was ignored by himself and gave up......

Therefore, the current carpenter Zhang, every time he sees the cattle in these tun people's homes, he will be very red and heartbroken. And regretted that he couldn't be ruthless at the beginning, and like them, he brought back a ploughing ox.

Faced with his son's sudden idea of buying ploughing cattle, Carpenter Zhang was ready to agree without thinking about it.

At this moment, Carpenter Zhang suddenly thought that in the boss's mention just now, he didn't even pay back the sixty taels of silver from the Governor's Palace.

So, Carpenter Zhang asked directly: "Tiezhu, what about the sixty taels of silver we bought for sheep?" ”

Zhang Tiezhu replied without thinking about it: "For the time being, I owe it first....wait until next year, and sell the sheep directly to repay the silver...."

"My son just saw that the six sheep we bought back have now become nine. According to this development momentum, by the time of next autumn's harvest, how can these nine sheep have fourteen or fifteen heads......"

"When the time comes, you can sell six or seven sheep at will, and you can repay this silver......

Carpenter Zhang's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Boss, you're right, I only thought about food, and I forgot the nine sheep in the family..."

"Anyway, there is no interest on the sixty taels of silver we owe to the Governor's Palace, and it will be the same this year as it will be next year..."

"Nine sheep, wait until next year, at least fifteen..."

"Fifteen sheep, if all of them are sold, there will still be one hundred and thirty or forty taels of silver. When the time comes, we will not only be able to pay off the debts owed by the Governor's Palace, but we will also be able to make a lot of money......" (to be continued......